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...Angeles and Manny Pacquiao, the world's best pound-for-pound boxer, is jogging on a public high school track. There are palm trees in the distance, and the low hum of traffic on I-10 is starting to turn into a low roar as the Filipino boxer, clad in a red tracksuit, dashes around the dirt oval despite a painful shin splint. A handful of early-arriving students hang on the chain-link fence surrounding the track and watch him do his work. The Pac-Man is preparing for his March 13 fight against Joshua Clottey, a dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacquiao and Mayweather: One More Until the Big One? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Just three months ago, boxing was preparing for its version of the Super Bowl. Fresh from his mega-fight win over Miguel Cotto, Pacquiao had begun negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr., a brash welterweight whom non-sports fans know best from his appearance on Dancing with the Stars. The proposed battle was being compared to some of the greatest matchups in boxing history. Even people who had given up on boxing or hadn't really thought about it much were talking about the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, which would probably earn each boxer $40 million, the most lucrative match ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacquiao and Mayweather: One More Until the Big One? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...money was the motive for the tell-all radio interview. Masferrer says the Legion has also circulated reports that Maciel was surrounded by exorcists in his final days, suggesting that his immoral acts were the work of demons and not the priest. That's a Hail Mary ploy at best. And it does little to obscure the fact that it's up to Benedict to decide whether Padre Maciel's Legion is itself possessed of enough demons to warrant more severe penance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maciel Scandal Puts Focus on a Secretive Church Order | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maciel Scandal Puts Focus on a Secretive Church Order | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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